There is something about listening
To a baseball game on the radio
It was the summer of Monica Lewinsky and Mark McGwire and Armageddon. I was on a short business trip to Philadelphia—a... more
When I first met Dawn, I didn’t know what a lexicographer was. I had to look it up. Later I admitted I hadn’t even... more
Much has been said about that smile. I'm not in the business of describing smiles.
Without fans, the stands turn to a castle
of concrete and sea birds.
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, the Sequel, or Part Zilch of Ten Billion, My Entire Oeuvre is this Film, a Mental Disturbance of a Review, 666 Words in Length
Must we insist on doling out movies by the stratagem?
It is 5:30 in the morning. I am standing in the lobby of a midtown Manhattan hotel, judging the distance between me and a planter... more
each pitch lost in the peripheral blink of an eye
I have been to many games at Shea Stadium and I know that this facility’s bar for unacceptable behavior is extremely low.
Let’s start this account of fuckfaces on October 18, 2006. I was 30 years old, recently engaged, in my third year of residency training at Chapel Hill, and depressed about the New York Mets.
Dear Dicky,
You probably figured it out by now, but I’m sorry I stole the softball.
Weezer (The White Album) Weezer Release Date: April 1, 2016 Atlantic Records Length: 34:05 The academic... more
Otherwise you'll end up with a mouthful of husk shards.
It is the last inning of the last game of a mediocre season for a mediocre team.
Dear waiter, it’s true: Casey struck out.
But they forgot to say the pitcher used
steroids. Used historical revisionism
I was twelve going on thirteen when I first saw Stand By Me. I guess that would have made it 1990. As the narrator, Gordie Lachance, says about the first time he saw a dead human being, as voiceover at the beginning of the movie: “a long time ago… but only if you measure terms in years...
Once I googled “Can you bunt in football?” Answers.com had a helpful “Answered by the Community” reply: “No.”
There are bite marks exposing the bright green flesh of two kiwis in the blue glass fruit bowl.
Déjà vu exists because time is a bunch of pink confetti
Season 6, season finale: Hank Moody attends AWP. Moral tragedy ensues.
I’m hoarse and feverish. We sing in the streets, “Feelin’ good was good enough for me, hee hee,” but then the breakfast booth only has two seats.
48 hours after his mysterious disappearance Lowe uploaded the first of many filter-less photographs to come to his, once deactivated and now reactivated, Instagram account.
[Previously: Part 10 :: Part 9 :: Part 8 :: Part 7 :: Part... more
I wear a velvet piece to the therapist’s office and she asks me to close my eyes. We agree to experience an illusion of me dancing...
